Mormons Bankroll Anti–Gay Marriage Amendments in California, Arizona

"Either give us civil rights or stop paying taxes." Uhhhh..........ok ok, ill stop paying taxes i guess. Wow, that was an easy choice.

I agree that individuals should not be terrorized, however, it's our right to know who these people are so if they own a business it can be boycotted. Economic boycotts are a form of non-violent protest. In 1958, public buses were boycotted to champion the right of blacks to sit where ever they wanted on a bus they paid for. No gay-, or gay supporters-, dollars should go to support the lifestyles of people or companies that would use their resources to deny the civil rights of gay citizens. Either give us civil rights or stop paying taxes.

Jay, What about the Catholics Ststues that were vandalized by you Puke Missionaries? Shouldn't they be parsecuted? You Mormons think you are so much better than everyone else. Don't you ever say that all that comes out of the South is ignorance, all that come out of the Mormon church is Stupidity!

As an added comment, how about we define seperation of church and state? This relates to the first amendment and is devided into two clauses from which the term originates. There is the establishment clause and the free execise clause, which go together to read "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof". This clearly shows that a law cannot be passed that favors an establishment of religion over another, nor can it prohibit the exercise of religion. No where does it say anything about the religious exercising their right to vote or donate to what they believe in. If the prop said, "Marriage is defined as between a christian man and woman" you would have an arguement, but that is not the case. Right now your grasping at excuses to blame someone for your loses.

Sure if someone disagrees with you, they must be lieing, if you harass them their in the wrong. Hows this little tidbit that was not included in the story, True, the amount raised in total to support Prop 8 was $36,122,538, including out of state and instate donations, but have you asked how much was raised to oppose the ban? $38, 432,873. In both out of state and in state donations, No raised more money to support their campaign, but guess what, more people still voted YES. If your blaming the LDS church for your lose, it's unfounded, you still raised more, and still people voted against you. Why, because thats what people believed, it's called democracy, and whining and protesting does nothing to change that.

What is ashame is that the lds cult is lying so much. Remember that they worked to make sure that rights to african americans didn't happen back in the 60's now they are making up stories about there churches being vandalized. then they sent letters to themselves with white powder in them and tried to make a big deal about that. I guess making things up is a part of the LDS. It all started with Joseph Smith.

I love all of these comments. They all were excellent reading material. I am a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and gladly so. In the Bible is says that the righteous will be persecuted by the evil in the last days. Well all of those people vandalizing our Temples is one such example. I'm glad to see that not all of the ignorant people are from the South anymore.

Has anyone REALLY done their homework on what the history of marriage is???? Real simple, marriage started out as a common law, not confirmed by the government. Now we want the government to control who can marry? From what I recall, our country was based on separation of the church and the law, right? So why are the churches so intrigued and stubborn to have the LAW fulfill their personal wishes? And if you are soooo into what the bible and Jesus has said, then does anyone recall, thou shall not judge thy neighbor? We are not Jesus, and we are NOT God, so we should not be the ones to judge what anyone wishes to practice, and incorporating the Constitution is immoral and an act of discrimination. Maybe the families of America should be focusing their energy toward preaching respect and dignity rather than blaming the LGBT group for the broken and unproductive families of today's world.

You need to be educated about your comments. Mormons pay our taxes. If you are referring to the Church, they are a non-profit, and I didn't know that you were their accountant and knew what they do with their money. People keep stating that they gave money to the yes on 8 -this is not correct information. Individuals of all faiths personally donated money to this organization not the church. We don't force our children to marry anyone as well.

I can't believe the hate coming out of California! Several Church's and individuals property have been vandilized were I live during the "march" across America. Your march was apparently an excuse to attack those different than you in and outside of your own state. This is pathetic, our own military didn't raid a mosque with known terrorist in it because they didn't want to defile a sacred building. Its pretty said that our own military gives more respect to buildings with terrorist in them than the gay community gives others. These ralleys are nothing more than hate marches. Your movement seems to have a no tolerance of heterosexuals, the actions are no better than the KKK towards African Americans.